The New Asceticism: Sexuality, gender and the quest for God by Sarah Coakley (Bloomsbury, £14.99 (Church Times SPECIAL OFFER PRICE £12.99); 978-1-4411-0322-2).
Augustine: Conversions and confessions by Robin Lane Fox (Allen Lane, £30 (£27); 978-1-846-14400-4).
Peter: False disciple and apostate according to Saint Matthew by Robert H. Gundry (Eerdmans, £12.99 (£11.70); 978-0-8028-7293-7).
Accidental Saints: Finding God in all the wrong people by Nadia Bolz-Weber (Canterbury Press, £12.99 (£11.70); 978-1-84825-823-5).
Britain’s Lost Churches: The forgotten holy sites of Britain’s Christian past by Matthew Hyde (Aurum Press, £10 (£18); 978-1-78131-121-9).
Selected by Frank Nugent, of the Church House Bookshop, which operates the Church Times Bookshop.